Seed Grants

Seed Grants support the university-wide priority of food discovery. Our Food Innovation Center brings unique broad-based expertise to the university's discovery themes as every Ohio State college has membership in this center. Seed grant proposal ideas must be innovative, create value, and lead to competitive extramural grants. We seek new team research approaches in food discovery consistent with our mission.

2013-2014 awardees

The following cross-college teams received up to $25,000 in funds to support novel approaches that aim to improve lives through adequate, safe, health-promoting food. Of the 18 proposals submitted, 9 were funded in total. Across the nine awards, 32 FIC members from six colleges and one school addressed food challenges through transdisciplinary inquiry and innovation. Thank you to all who participated in the competition, including the 20 FIC members who reviewed proposals.